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good quote i found on imdb
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| RenderedDream |
While browsing imdb forums i found this:
| quote: | "NASA spent millions developing a pen that could write in space.
The Russians used a pencil" |
is this true? |
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| tu_face |
| haha, sounds about right. |
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| Cal |
| Yeah sounds about right |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Yeah, but the Russians only had "a pencil"...
They all had to share one. :wtf:
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| 2fan |
| quote: | Originally posted by RenderedDream
While browsing imdb forums i found this:
is this true? |
-- Cultural Appearances
There exists a common rumor claiming that NASA spent millions of dollars developing the Space Pen, with the humorous note that the Russian space agency opted to simply use pencils. This has been debunked several times, for instance by Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp). A bullet style Space pen is on permanent display at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). The Space Pen was featured on an episode of the American television show Seinfeld.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen |
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| oSUKARu |
It seemed true, though. :wtf:
Soviets are far more clever than Americans... but then again, who isn't? :haha: |
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| dospunk |
| Ummm let me think, mexicans. |
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| SID133 |
| quote: | Originally posted by dospunk
Ummm let me think, mexicans. |
waaaaiiiiit a tick you took a funny thread and took it somewhere it didnt need to go
not nice:whip: |
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| Tranc3 |
| quote: | Originally posted by SID133
waaaaiiiiit a tick you took a funny thread and took it somewhere it didnt need to go
not nice:whip: |
Well so did oSUKARu when he/she posted that Americans aren't very clever. |
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| Tranc3 |
Heh, this was pretty funny too, off Snopes.com:
"Fisher spent over one million dollars in trying to perfect the ball point pen before he made his first successful pressurized pens in 1965. Samples were immediately sent to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Manager of the Houston Space Center, where they were thoroughly tested and approved for use in Space in September 1965. In December 1967 he sold 400 Fisher Space Pens to NASA for $2.95 each." |
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